List of Famous people born on July 24th

Jakob Mayr was the Austrian prelate, who served as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg from his appointment on 12 May 1971, until his retirement on 15 August 2001. He also remained the bishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Salzburg until his death in 2010.

Hubert John Duggan was a British Army officer and politician, who was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Acton from 1931 until his death. He was an opponent of appeasement and broke the whip on several important occasions, voting to bring down Neville Chamberlain in 1940.

Delmer Lawrence Daves was an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor.

Goutam Ghose is an Indian film director, music director and cinematographer, who works primarily in Bengali cinema.

James Rhyne Killian Jr. was the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959.

Carsten Jensen is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His novels, including I Have Seen the World Begin (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. For this novel he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær in 1996. The year 2006 saw the publication of his novel Vi, de druknede, a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark, seen through the history of his hometown Marstal.

Britton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.